On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:51:05 -0500, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Once the Canadian one expires in 12 days, I see no reason to continue prohibiting people from using GIFs. Of course, whether there's any advantage to GIFs over PNGs is another issue, but if we choose not to use GIFs, it should be for a non-legal reason, and we should probably not be anal about absolutely prohibiting them.
List of Advantages of GIF over PNG: 1) Animation. 2) ??? 3) Profit!!!
Erm. Make that just 1, Animation. :)
Advantages of PNG over GIF: 1) better compression ratios available 2) variety of compression levels available 3) better interlacing algorithm available 4) 24-bit color depth available 5) 8-bit alpha transparency possibly available (in some contexts)